Product Designer

About Artie Artie is a real-time streaming platform that moves production data across systems in real time, with zero maintenance. We make high-volume data replication simple, reliable, and scalable for engineering teams. Our platform powers mission-critical use cases including fraud and risk monitoring, inventory visibility, customer-facing analytics, and AI workloads. Artie is built for engineers who care about performance, reliability, and operational simplicity — and we’re growing fast. We’re trusted by teams like ClickUp, Substack, and Alloy, and backed by top-tier investors including Y Combinator, General Catalyst, Pathlight Ventures, and the founders of Dropbox and Mode. We’re hiring our first product designer to help make Artie self-serve, intuitive, and coherent as the product surface area grows. About The Role This is a product design role , not a marketing or brand design role. As our founding designer, you’ll own the experience of using Artie day-to-day — from first login to advanced workflows. You’ll help turn a powerful but feature-rich platform into something customers can understand, navigate, and adopt without hand-holding. This is a high-impact IC role in a small, fast-moving team. You’ll work closely with founders and engineers, move quickly through ambiguity, and ship improvements continuously. If you’re a designer who cares more about usability, clarity, and customer outcomes than polish-for-polish’s sake, this role is for you. What You’ll Do Make Artie self-serve and understandable Design onboarding, navigation, and in-product guidance that helps customers understand: Where they are What’s available to them How to use Artie effectively Improve feature discoverability and reduce reliance on support and founder-led walkthroughs Bring coherence to a growing product Create clear, intuitive patterns as new features and capabilities are added Help rationalize feature flags, configuration surfaces, and advanced settings Balance power and simplicity for technical users Be a strong product partner Collaborate closely with engineers and founders to shape product direction Ask good questions, propose solutions, and push back thoughtfully when something won’t work for users Translate product ideas into concrete, usable flows quickly Ship fast and iterate Work with speed in a low-process environment Get designs in front of real users, learn, and iterate Optimize for outcomes over perfection Occasionally help beyond core product (nice-to-have) Light contributions to product-related visuals (e.g. screenshots, minor polish for docs, marketing site) when helpful — but this is not the core of the role What We’re Looking For Product-oriented designer 3–7 years of product design experience Strong track record designing real, shipped products — ideally for technical users Prior startup experience is a plus, but not required Speed and pragmatism Comfortable working with ambiguity and minimal process Bias toward action — you ship, learn, and iterate You don’t get stuck overthinking or over-polishing Strong product thinking You design based on user needs and context, not personal taste You care deeply about usability, clarity, and adoption You can reason about tradeoffs and explain your decisions Collaborative and opinionated Willing to push back, but always grounded in customer impact Comfortable working closely with engineers in a scrappy environment Logistics Willing to work in-person, 5 days/week at our SF office Comfortable operating in a small, fast-growing startup What You’ll Get Foundational impact: You’ll define how customers experience Artie High ownership: Real influence over the product, not just execution Tight feedback loop: Work directly with founders, engineers, and customers Room to grow: Role can evolve as the company and design needs grow Compensation & Benefits Salary: $170K-$220K Equity: 0.15%-0.38% Healthcare, 401(k) matching, unlimited PTO Lunch & dinner provided #J-18808-Ljbffr